K. Aitolou Street (property of N. Papavasileiou), Naupaktos - 2007

K. Aitolou Street (property of N. Papavasileiou), Naupaktos. Maria Gatsi (ΛΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discoveries of antiquities 1.70m below the road surface.

Remains were found of a building measuring 5.60 x 12.40m, constructed from limestone blocks (Fig. 1). The inner walls were made of roughly worked stones, and were much simpler. The overall dimensions of the building are not known, as the extent continued to the NW of the excavation plot. It is thought the building was located within an important district of the ancient city, and to the E side was an open space thought to be a road running NW (road 1), maximum width 2m and length 4m. The building had an entrance from the street, which was not used in the final phase. The road probably intersected at its S end with another road (road 2) running in an EW direction.

The building was preserved to a maximum height of 2.50m. Excavation revealed three main phases of the building, as well as later interventions in the SE part. The first phase was late Classical, then there were two Hellenistic phases. On the basis of pottery, in the late Hellenistic period, this building was probably a domestic residence. The space was reused in the early Byzantine period. A cist grave was found to the SE corner of this period, and also in this final phase wall fragments (and part of a tombstone, a stone vessel, and a porphyry column) from earlier phases were reused as spolia.